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Reference numberRR/28/37
LevelItem
TitleReferee's report by Sydney Chapman, on a paper 'The motion of electrons in gases' by Harold Albert Wilson
Date[January 1923]
DescriptionSectional Committee: Physics

Recommended for publication in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London'. The paper is a continuation of an earlier one by the same author. The results are not conclusive, but 'the paper contains the germ of what might on more detailed calculations prove to be a correct theory'.

[Published in the 'Proceedings of the Royal Society of London' A, 1923]

Endorsed on verso as received 11 January 1923.
Extent4p
FormatManuscript
Physical descriptionStandardised form (type D)
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Access statusOpen
Related materialDOI: 10.1098/rspa.1923.0039 Vol.103 1923
Fellows associated with this archive
CodeNameDates
NA8165Chapman; Sydney (1888 - 1970); mathematician and geophysicist1888 - 1970
NA1223Wilson; Harold Albert (1874 - 1964); physicist1874 - 1964
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